Healthy mindset

Tools for healthy mindset in practice and performance are included in every Well-Balanced Pianist program

Your mindset determines how quickly you learn and progress, how securely you perform, and how much you enjoy playing the piano in private and in performance. At the Well-Balanced Pianist, group discussions based on selected readings and help you to find your way to your own optimal mindset for practice and performance.

If you feel fearful, judgmental, and critical in your practice, you probably don't enjoy playing the way you wish, and you may be increasing your performance anxiety.

But you are not hard-wired to be unhappy in practice or performance! You can improve your mindset! Fantastic tools are available for musicians these days, and we have used a lot of them at The Well-Balanced Pianist. Leading the charge of sports psychologist into the music world are Bill Moore and Don Greene. Susan Jeffers' Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway offers concrete tools for the fearful. W. Timothy Gallwey's Inner Game of Tennis and James Loehr's Championship Tennis contain tools that apply to any practice and performance. To learn to let go and experience the moment without judgment, you can learn to meditate with Pema Chödrön's Start Where You Are.

An optimal mindset and practice allows you to listen well and objectively assess your playing. An optimal mindset for performing allows you to use your adrenaline to advantage, with trust and courage.